the venerable old guard --

[Guest guest]

let me start this mail by paying my respects to the old guard -- who gave me all

my marks as some would say --

the institute would not have been what it is today, without the extraordinary

efforts of the old guard under the capable leadership of our beloved badi

bahenji -- you and i wouldn't have been a doctor perhaps ??

it is no easy task for building something from a scratch -- you and i who have

started a practice know what that means --

like dr vk has said -- these are imperfections that need to be recognized and

weeded out -- and after seeing the baher ki duniya i think we are much better

!!!!

<<Besides that, you can't really blame the teachers if they deal with children

of their fellow staff members preferentially. They have watched these

children grow in front of their eyes. They meet their parents everyday

socially or on college business. They cannot casually say, " Oh, by the way,

your son has failed by 3 marks! " >>

this projects the old guard in a negative light --

the problem is as much with the system as the people living in it --

if all 200 marks of theory and 200 marks of practicals are in the internals'

hands -- who is to blame - average(normal)behavior or the stupid system -- would

love to place each one of you in the same system and see what you do -- in fact

would love to come and observe you at 'work' and see how many of you don't err a

million times in a regular day --

you and me care about our almamater.... but not enough to stay and effect a

change --

another important perspective --

scores and scores of nonstaff children/ students with no connections other than

a generic one (money/power/ethnicity)have benefited from the same system -- in

fact in such a system every toppers' grades are suspect !!

<<It gave me a PG and gave me one big inferiority about my capabilities, when

I did not deserve it (read inferiority). It took me sometime to realise that

I can be counted among the best. This is true for all the postgraduates from

the surgical specialities in Sewagram. I am sure nothing is being done to

change this and by sugar coating things we are only encouraging this trend

to continue. By discussing these issues we can send across the message that

the alumni, like the press, can monitor the monitors>>

respectfully and sadly ..i have to agree with ragu every bit here --

i saw renuka go through the same and much more here, when she trained side by

side pgi/aiims/bombay grads -- pathology depends on surgery depts !!

on the other hand me, a peds md from mgims who had never seen a functioning

ventilator, did very well as physicians just need to be intellectually

developed-- surgical/technical skills are secondary in medical specialities --

plus being a batch topper you are tougher to take on the battles --

but ragu --

place yourself in their shoes --

lack of equipment, aggressive management, non urban location, step motherly

treatment from both central and state governments and lack of a charity support

structure like for CMC Vellore --

might be some of the several factors responsible ??

life is a package deal ragu -- i am sure you have realized it by now -- the good

comes with the bad --

mumbai is a very cruel place for an outsider -- way way more than say new york

or chicago !!

i can understand your angst --

<<Even today,I find that despite there still being no Vitreoretinal surgeon,the

institute is hesitant to call some of our ex students,like Dhanashree,who is a

consultant at the prestigious Shankar Netralaya,AND seek her expertise,for

reasons beyond my knowledge.

Bye.

Shyam(84). >>

its so easy to be a whiner and be unhappy -- and shyam you are not one of them

--

how many alumni superspecialists have bothered to actually take up a job in

sewagram and rought it out ??

ZERO !!!!

for eg., like my dad -- who did it -- way before mgims became the sophisticated

institution it is -- he won the bc roy award from sewagram followed by dr p

narang -- which people from the big cities also find hard to achieve

--thesepeople should be our role models --

alumni have to also do one more thing in addition to de sugar coating things --

how much voluntary services have they offered to their beloved almamater -- and

beware -- there will be resistance to that --

initially -- ask my dad -- he will counsel you -- if you have a dream to

contribute to your almamater !!

<<Plus,I am also disturbed to see,that 3yrs,since the inception,we still don't

find a healthy number of MGIMS staff,writing about events,their thoughts as

yet,and that's sad.Hope,these views aired by us all,brings about some healthy

changes in due course of time.>>

i have always wondered about this -- and here is my explanation -- you and i

have nothing to loose -- airing our views candidly -- but they have to go to

work the next day -- and they decided to stick to sewagram --

kudos to all who are keeping the show on @ our beloved " mgims " !

and let us know here at the alumni center how and when we can contribute our

services and we will take time and money out of our materialistic aspirations

for our great institution !!

JAI MGIMS,

ashok harinath bhaskar 1984 batch